Junior Contracts in the Midlands

Junior
England > Midlands

The median Junior daily rate in the Midlands is £200, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 87 124 138
Rank change year-on-year +37 +14 +50
Contract jobs requiring a Junior 24 9 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.25% 0.33% 0.84%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.39% 0.36% 0.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 8 20
10th Percentile £140 £117 £135
25th Percentile £150 £142 £214
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £200 £200 £288
Median % change year-on-year - -30.43% -23.33%
75th Percentile £379 £223 £420
90th Percentile £400 £243 £455
England median daily rate £275 £325 £270
% change year-on-year -15.38% +20.37% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £10.88
25th Percentile - - £10.93
Median hourly rate £18.13 - £11.00
75th Percentile - - £30.50
90th Percentile - - £42.20
England median hourly rate £19.71 £10.42 £13.48
% change year-on-year +89.11% -22.67% -35.83%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the Midlands. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the Midlands with a recognized job title 1,725 2,532 3,256
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.13% 91.84% 94.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,147 1,707 2,290
10th Percentile £200 £213 £223
25th Percentile £356 £325 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.26%
75th Percentile £552 £588 £588
90th Percentile £638 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 106 213 128
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.84 £12.35
25th Percentile £14.00 £14.27 £15.21
Median hourly rate £18.82 £19.59 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.94% -2.05% +16.33%
75th Percentile £28.18 £35.00 £28.88
90th Percentile £35.58 £54.60 £61.50
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Junior
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings that featured Junior in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Junior in the Midlands

Junior
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Junior in the Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Junior in the Midlands

Junior
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Junior in the Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Junior in the Midlands

Junior
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Junior in the Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Junior in the Midlands

Junior
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Junior within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
West Midlands +26 19 £155 -25.30% 21
East Midlands +13 5 £311 +77.71% 20
Junior
England

Junior Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Junior contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Midlands region featuring Junior in the job title.

1 13 (54.17%) Problem-Solving
1 13 (54.17%) Social Skills
2 8 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 8 (33.33%) Degree
3 7 (29.17%) Computer Science
4 6 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (20.83%) Azure
5 5 (20.83%) AWS
5 5 (20.83%) Data Integration
6 4 (16.67%) Middleware
6 4 (16.67%) B2B
6 4 (16.67%) ERP
6 4 (16.67%) Data Extraction
6 4 (16.67%) Migration
6 4 (16.67%) TOGAF
6 4 (16.67%) Data Lake
6 4 (16.67%) Procure-to-Pay
6 4 (16.67%) DevOps
6 4 (16.67%) GCP
6 4 (16.67%) Data Governance
6 4 (16.67%) CI/CD
6 4 (16.67%) TOGAF Certification
6 4 (16.67%) Power Platform
6 4 (16.67%) PowerApps
6 4 (16.67%) Power Automate
6 4 (16.67%) Public Sector
6 4 (16.67%) Integration Patterns
6 4 (16.67%) Interface Catalogue
7 3 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (12.50%) Jenkins

Junior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (4.17%) Adobe XD
Cloud Services
1 5 (20.83%) AWS
1 5 (20.83%) Azure
2 4 (16.67%) GCP
2 4 (16.67%) Power Automate
2 4 (16.67%) Power Platform
2 4 (16.67%) PowerApps
3 3 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (8.33%) Figma
5 1 (4.17%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (4.17%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.17%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (16.67%) Data Lake
2 1 (4.17%) Aerospike
2 1 (4.17%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 3 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 2 (8.33%) Cucumber
2 2 (8.33%) Selenium
3 1 (4.17%) Bitbucket
3 1 (4.17%) Git
3 1 (4.17%) GitLab
3 1 (4.17%) IntelliJ
3 1 (4.17%) Maven
General
1 13 (54.17%) Social Skills
2 6 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (16.67%) Public Sector
4 2 (8.33%) Banking
4 2 (8.33%) Retail
5 1 (4.17%) Finance
5 1 (4.17%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (16.67%) Middleware
2 3 (12.50%) HTML
3 2 (8.33%) DOM
3 2 (8.33%) jQuery
4 1 (4.17%) CSS
4 1 (4.17%) Kafka
4 1 (4.17%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.50%) Driving Licence
2 1 (4.17%) Animation
2 1 (4.17%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (4.17%) Motion Graphics
2 1 (4.17%) NHS
2 1 (4.17%) Photography
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.17%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (54.17%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (29.17%) Computer Science
3 5 (20.83%) Data Integration
4 4 (16.67%) B2B
4 4 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 4 (16.67%) Data Extraction
4 4 (16.67%) Data Governance
4 4 (16.67%) DevOps
4 4 (16.67%) ERP
4 4 (16.67%) Integration Patterns
4 4 (16.67%) Interface Catalogue
4 4 (16.67%) Migration
4 4 (16.67%) Procure-to-Pay
4 4 (16.67%) TOGAF
5 3 (12.50%) Agile
5 3 (12.50%) Collaborative Working
5 3 (12.50%) Service Delivery
6 2 (8.33%) Data Migration
6 2 (8.33%) Project Management
6 2 (8.33%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 3 (12.50%) Java
2 1 (4.17%) JavaScript
2 1 (4.17%) Python
2 1 (4.17%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (33.33%) Degree
2 4 (16.67%) TOGAF Certification
3 2 (8.33%) DBS Check
3 2 (8.33%) Security Cleared
4 1 (4.17%) MCSE
4 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (4.17%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.17%) Accessibility
1 1 (4.17%) Data Quality
1 1 (4.17%) QA
System Software
1 3 (12.50%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.17%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 2 (8.33%) SCCM
2 1 (4.17%) Nessus
Vendors
1 8 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 3 (12.50%) Citrix
3 2 (8.33%) Adobe
4 1 (4.17%) Cisco
4 1 (4.17%) Databricks
4 1 (4.17%) Nexthink
4 1 (4.17%) Oracle
4 1 (4.17%) Tenable
4 1 (4.17%) Veracode